Doctor Me First Podcast

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I’ve done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from The Prosperous Doc with Shane Tenny. Burnout, physician suicide, and other mental illnesses are issues the medical community continues to grapple with. Although there is greater awareness and recognition of these mental health problems than in the past, doctors still find themselves afraid to speak up and seek help. (4:05) Despite these prevalent fears, some medical professionals are stepping up to provide resources to help each other out. In this episode of Prosperous Doc, our host Shane Tenny is joined by family medicine physician and founder of Physician Coaching Alliance, Dr. Errin Weisman. Dr. Weisman explores the benefits of physician coaching for coping with the unique issues facing medical practitioners today. She shares her journey to becoming a coach and how difficult days fueled her passion for coaching. (1:47) She goes on to examine the surge in demand for professional and life coaching in the medical industry, as more discover this as a valuable tool. Dr. Weisman also touches on several challenges common to the medical profession, including physician burnout, physical and career suicide (13:00), money dynamics in marriages, and other financial struggles. (20:27) Her solution, when things pile up and get overwhelming, is to take things one step at a time, tackle and focus on one issue first. (16:12) Some of the key takeaways that Dr. Weisman wants physicians to understand is that you are not alone in your problems, you are not stuck, and there is hope that things are going to change. (17:07) Remind yourself that you are okay, even when it feels like the current situation is not. It’s never a sign of weakness to reach out and ask for help, so please reach out for help when you need it. (31:39) To learn more visit the Physician Coaching Alliance website and The Doctor Me First podcast. You can also connect with Dr. Errin Weisman on Instagram and LinkedIn. 3 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book,Doctor Me First, on Amazon Join us for our Monthly Burnout Masterclass Series. Sit with me in my Slack Channel. Schedule a call with Errin HERE Wanna be on this podcast: Schedule HERE Email Errin HERE

My friend Dr. Laura Suttin is a family physician down in San Antonio, TX. She is wearing all the hats as a business consultant, author, coach, and MD. She helps other physicians tell their stories and find their voice after they have been chewed up by the culture of the medical system. Female physicians often find themselves in situations of powerlessness in their work. They do not have the power to take a day off, they do not have the ability to take a break or a breath. It often takes a coach or a mentor to step in and help us realize that we can take our power back and prioritize our own health.  As strong women, we are not the type to be a victim in a situation. As we strive for the bar of what a “good physician” looks like, we often get caught up in that image and the pressures of the medical culture, not realizing that we are actually being victimized. By understanding that, you can create your own power and your own movement to stand your ground and stand up to the bullies of the medical culture and the impossible standards it sets for us as physicians.  There will always be days when we are having a harder time than others, and there are ways that we can cope with those days and those circumstances that can provide us with the support we need to make it through those harder days while continuing to prioritize our needs and our feelings. As physicians, we often stuff our feelings down, and a big leap to take is to sit with your feelings and actually feel them as opposed to burying them and carrying them.  Dr. Laura and I talk all about the ways we can take back our voices, find our power, and cope with difficult times in this episode, and it is full of value for physicians no matter where they find themselves in their careers. We hope that you’ll join us today and that you can take away some actionable tips to get your voice back and steer yourself back into your own power. “We’re not robots. We don’t have the capacity to just go, go, go and never rest or never recover.” Dr. Laura Suttin   Connect with Laura: Purposeful MD Facebook | Email | TikTok | YouTube 2 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT A LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book,Doctor Me First, on Amazon Come sit with me in the Badass Collective Slack Group.

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I’ve done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the Create an Unstoppable Life Podcast with Dr. Dena George. It's a joy to celebrate 100 episodes with a favorite friend - Dr. Errin Weisman. You know her from Doctor Me First podcast, founder of Physician Coaching Alliance, and all things Burntout to Badass including the coaching program.  In this episode you will hear about her journey here and all the wisdom she's gained. . . and how she leads/guides others to create freedom Links and Resources Connect with Dr. Dena George: Dena George MD LinkedIn 3 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book,Doctor Me First, on Amazon Join us for our Monthly Burnout Masterclass Series. Sit with me in my Slack Channel. Schedule a call with Errin HERE Wanna be on this podcast: Schedule HERE Email Errin HERE

Dr. Amna Shabbir was a previous podcast listener and member of the Physician’s Coaching Alliance. In the depths of burnout, she stumbled across Dr. Me First and found that she wasn’t alone in her physician burnout. After listening for over a year throughout her toughest times, she finally reached out to me, and the rest has been history.  Originally from Pakistan, Dr. Amna made her journey to the US as an international medical graduate (IMG). Statistically, IMGs tend to practice in underserved communities and with the elderly. Hardworking and dedicated, IMGs are still susceptible to burnout as they end up in areas with minimal resources, stressful work situations, and a system that is stacked against them. With the cultural influence that many IMGs face about the career pressures to become a doctor, it can make the journey out of physician burnout that much more difficult. Finding themselves in situations where they are often underpaid, overworked, and isolated from their support system - the struggle that IMGs face is real, and they need the help, reassurance, and tools to fight burnout amidst the added pressures to succeed that are placed on them by their families.  After completing her fellowship, Dr. Amna found her calling as an integrated wellness and life coach while continuing to be a practicing geriatrician in nursing homes and obtaining the work-life balance and fulfillment that she has always wanted. She now helps others achieve the same, and she has a heart for helping IMGs carve their path in medicine.  She has a big passion for helping others transition and succeed while loving themselves and loving medicine, and you will absolutely want to tune in to this episode and hear us chat about the struggle that IMGs face and how the resources that are available to help them succeed.    “Challenge the narratives that you share with yourself.” Dr. Amna Shabbir   Connect with Dr. Shabbir: Amna Shabbir Instagram |LinkedIn   2 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT A LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book,Doctor Me First, on Amazon Come sit with me in the Badass Collective Slack Group.  

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I’ve done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the Mom After Hours Podcast with Brandi Wiatrak. Every mom has likely felt as though she can’t take on one.more.damn.thing. Being stressed with children who require your help from sunrise to sundown is typical. But feeling like you’re on the edge of losing your mind or like the weight of everything is on you is called burnout—a state of mental, physical, and emotional depletion. Studies suggest about 14 percent of parents feel this way, and research finds societal pressure to be the “perfect” mother can deepen the feelings.  In 2014, Dr. Errin Weisman was that statistic, which left her feeling empty, sad, trapped, and desperate for change. Luckily, she took action.  In this episode, Errin vividly shares her story of rising from the ashes of burnout and how a life coach helped her torch the past and start over. Errin offers sage advice to high-achieving women to rediscover their purpose, find happiness, and achieve badass status.  Follow Mom After Hours on Instagram @momafterhours or Facebook at @momafterhourspodcast. If you’re craving a little love and behind-the-scenes    Links and Resources 3 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book, Doctor Me First, on Amazon Join us for our Monthly Burnout Masterclass Series. Sit with me in my Slack Channel. Schedule a call with Errin HERE Wanna be on this podcast: Schedule HERE Email Errin HERE

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I’ve done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the Fried. The Burnout Podcast with Cait Donovan. Errin Weisman, D.O. was taught, like all doctors to be a robot, a superhuman, a she-ro - and it burnt her out. Now, Errin Weisman, DO is a life coach, podcaster and fierce wellness advocate who helps inspire female physicians and working moms to do the work they love and absolutely love life. Her work in the world is to openly tell how she faced professional burnout early in her family medicine career so that no one feels alone, all know that change is possible because "if she can do it, so can I" and that you can have a joy-filled and sustainable career. She lives and practices life coaching and medicine in rural Southwestern Indiana, loves her roles as farmer's wife, athlete and mother of three. Besides being sassy, she enjoys getting mud on her shoes, teaching her children to catch tadpoles and reading a great fantasy novel. In this episode, Errin and I definitely get sassy and talk about how burnout was the worst year of her life and left her asking: "What is wrong with me?!?!" Reaching the moment where she had everything she'd been striving for and then realizing something was missing she described as "when you reach the mountaintop and it feels like a deep dark canyon, and then you find the basement". It only took her 3 months into her medical career before she was looking for an out. When she reached out she got told she'd get used to it, it was normal, and maybe she should pop an antidepressant. Then, she met a coach. And the moment she finally felt seen, heard and understood - she began to heal. Now, she helps other female physicians and moms heal their own burnouts. In addition to 1:1 coaching, she has an online course called From Burnt Out To Badass, and she started a directory of physician coaches so that everyone can find the person they need. She credits learning to name and claim her emotions outside of 'numb' and 'angry' as crucial to her healing and talks a ton about really being her sassy self and how leaving her personality behind when she became DR. WEISSMAN was a major burnout factor for her. She wants you to know this: You are not broken. You are not the problem. This [burnout] is not a character flaw. And she'd love for you to ask yourself, "What if...... ..... you gave yourself the permission to explore? ..... you allowed your personality to shine through? ..... you could let go of your identity that you gained because of your career or degree? ..... you could be empowered to just be you? This week's episode is fun and informative and I know you're going to love it as much as I did. Connect with Cait: Cait's WebsiteBUY THE BOOK: The Bouncebackability Factor The Resentment Journal Mini Course Links and Resources 3 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book,Doctor Me First, on Amazon Join us for our Monthly Burnout Masterclass Series. Sit with me in my Slack Channel. Schedule a call with Errin HERE Wanna be on this podcast: Schedule HERE Email Errin HERE

Welcome to the Doctor Me First Reboot Showcase where we are spotlighting the amazing podcasts and podcasters who have interviewed ME. Over the next several months we will be sprinkling in interviews I’ve done on other shows to highlight other amazing podcasts. This episode is from the It’s Not Just You podcast with Dr. Kara Pepper How do you tell the difference between burnout and other forms of "I don't feel good?" Dr. Errin Weisman - family doc, farmer's wife, mother of dragons, alpaca lover - walks us through her burnout recovery only to discover what she was really running from.    Links and Resources Connect with Dr. Kara Pepper: Dr. Kara Pepper It’s Not Just You Podcast  

Dr. Maggie is a Radiologist and a mom whose daughter was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica (NMO) at age nine. The moment of terror of seeing the brain MRI of her daughter displaying an inflammatory episode of NMO put her in the downward spiral of grief that so many experience when faced with such a diagnosis. While watching her child struggle with the most innate parts of her brain functions, Dr. Maggie found herself on the other side of the table, making difficult medical decisions of intubation or facility transfer for better care. The pain she experienced in seeing her child go from perfectly normal and healthy to critically ill while she feared the uncertainty of the future shaped how she now helps other people understand the difference between pain and suffering.  It can be difficult to feel intense emotions and sit with those feelings, especially as a doctor. But if we can acknowledge our pain and begin to navigate it, it doesn’t hold the power over us that we think it does, and it won’t last as long as it normally would otherwise.  When she was finally able to work through her pain, Dr. Maggie was able to gain perspective and realize that she could be present in the new normal and take joy in the small moments and little victories. And while suffering can be indefinite, something that you will have to face in small moments every day, acknowledging the pain of those moments can help you move through them and appreciate the progress of the journey out of your suffering. After her experience, she became certified in coaching and now helps other moms navigate the devastation that comes with having a child that suffers from rare chronic diseases. By helping them acknowledge their own grief, she helps them understand the difference between pain and suffering and how to be present and support their child through their diagnosis. Tune in today to learn more about the magic that Dr. Maggie is bringing into the world and how she is helping parents and children everywhere navigate their grief by understanding the differences between pain and suffering.  “When you actually accept and move through your pain, it doesn’t last nearly as long as you think.” Dr. Maggie Kang Connect with Dr. Kang: Maggie Kang MD Freebie Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn  2 WAYS TO GET INCREDIBLE HELP AT A LOW-COST!!! Buy my Kindle Book,Doctor Me First, on Amazon Come sit with me in the Badass Collective Slack Group.